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SADIQ KHAN will today put working-class aspiration at the centre of his campaign to become London mayor.
The Labour candidate will launch a manifesto that he says will allow others to follow his path from a council estate to City Hall.
“I had the benefit of a good state school, a place at university that I could afford and, ultimately, good jobs for my wife and me that enabled us to buy a family home,” he will say.
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
